FABRICATION AND ANALYSIS OF BANANA WITH GLASS FIBRE COMPOSITE MATERIALS ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
Keywords:
Natural Fiber, Hand lay, Impact strength., Flexural strength, Tensile strengthAbstract
Natural fiber composites are emerging as realistic alternatives to glass-reinforced composites in many applications. Natural fiber composites such as banana fiber, hemp fiber-epoxy, flax fiber-polypropylene (PP), and china reed fiber-PP are particularly attractive in automotive applications because of lower cost and lower density. Natural fiber composites are also claimed to offer environmental advantages such as reduced dependence on non-renewable energy/material sources, lower pollutant emissions, lower greenhouse gas emissions, enhanced energy recovery, and end of life biodegradability of components. Since, such superior environmental performance is an important driver of increased future use of natural fiber composites. This paper deals with Banana and glass fiber composites. It is one of the fiber reinforced composites. Banana and glass fiber is used as reinforcement and the polymer based resin is used as a matrix. The mechanical properties like Tensile, Flexural and Impact strength are analyzed in detail.
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